wow...why even risk owning a cat!?! UPDATE

So I have always heard horror stories here and there about cats hurting newborns but now I believe it to be absolutely true.

My best friend has had the same cat for 13 yrs and her newborn is barely a month old laying in the bouncy seat. She stepped away to heat up breast milk and the cat sat on top of the bouncy seat and ultimately the top of her face yesterday. My friend couldn't even here her baby cry and the cat ended up scratching the baby on the face. And this cat is known to be the sweetest pet ever.

And a few months ago my brother found my niece blue lipped in her bassinet and his cat he has had for seven years laying on her face. Also a newborn.

I think I would he leaving Mr kitty with a family member for awhile or finding another home all together.
*****ladies, this is meant to caution cat owners since THIS did happen to my brother who owns a very sweet cat for the past 7yrs and my best friend in such a short period of time. Any comment of mine made there after was in sarcasm in response to the rude comments made by PP. I think animals are great additions to families but since this is such a tragic occurrence in my family, I won't be risking a cat in my home. Taking caution is never ridiculous when it comes to our children like some have exaggerated. I will take more steps to do so when things are put in my face, like never allowing my child walk to school alone, because more and more kids are kidnapped, or having a doggy door and any kind of pool or pond in my back yard. I'm not a judgemental person, at all, and AGAIN, only meant to warn parents to take precautions as you see fit because these incidents DO happen.
But F U to all the mean girls that didn't even give a damn my niece was injured but took the time to mock a post.

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My cats are part of my familiy. I will take the time to train them and make sure to watch them extra close after baby is here. But I don't have anyone to take my cats for a couple months and there is no way in hell i will be giving them up! Only 2 out of 10 cats are adopted from pet shelters, so be a responsible pet owner and train your cats instead of putting them out.

I could not read all of these. But, my aunt has a huge, hairy extremely hairy cat. If I ever stay at her house, I shut the cat out of my room. That cat pushed on the door and got in the room and I woke up to it laying on my face! And it had no Interest in getting off my face! And obv I am not a newborn baby.
But, there may be some validity to this post. In the sense that, I now can totally see this happening.

Op, if your friends cat was known as being the sweetest cat ever, it could have probably been predicted that the cat would snuggle up to baby. That's what it was doing, it wasn't trying to harm the baby. Not trying to sound insensitive, but it sounds like that could have been prevented by either taking the baby with her to the kitchen, closing the door when she left the room to separate cat and baby, etc.. especially knowing the cat would want to snuggle because that's his personality.

I've had a LOT of cats in my life (my dad was what I would call an animal hoarder--there was a time when he had well over 40 cats at once!). I have never seen a cat lay on top if another cat it's size. But for some reason cats will lay on top of a baby's face? I don't see how this is just them "cuddling." But I could be wrong. Regardless, a cat would never have priority over my child (yes, this goes to PP who said she wouldn't give her cat up for anything). If I just had one or maybe two cats, I would probably keep them but find someone to take care of them for me for a while or watch DD like a hawk! The former would probably be the plan though because I've had cats sneak right into rooms I'm going into that they shouldn't be in and then hide (like my bedroom--I wound up waking up in the middle of the night to meowing even though I keep my bedroom door closed).

I have been around cats all my life, ever since I can remember. We currently have 2 cats. They are not allowed in the nursery, and I will always keep an eye on them and never leave my baby unattended, so I will never have a problem.

It's not the cats fault that the baby is warm and soft. They just want to cuddle.